LAND MONOPOLY. 675 



rents from 180 farms, some of them containing more than 

 500 hundred acres each, while his tenants, after paying the 

 rents, can scarcely live. 



An Indiana correspondent of the Chicago Express 

 says the public lands of the United States, exclusive of 

 the thirteen colonies and Texas, were as follows: 



ACRES. 



Thirteen colonies 229,987,187 



Louisiana purchase 756,961,280 



Florida 37>93 1 >52o 



Texas 65,130,880 



Gadsden 29,142,400 



Alaska 399>529> 6 o 



Mexican treaty 334>443>52O 



Total 1,823,126,387 



Land not available to be deducted: 



ACRES. 



Alaska 369,529,600 



Indian and military reservations 157,000,000 



Mountains and untillable land 400,000,000 



Total . . 926,529,600 



This leaves as available land nearly 900,000,000 acres. 

 Of this 300, ooo, ooo are owned by private parties and actual 

 settlers. Congress has given to the States 160,000,000 

 acres, 79,000,000 to schools, as swamp lands 70,000,000 

 acres, as bounties for military and naval service 61,000,000, 

 and 6,000,000 acres for canals, wagon roads, etc., a total 

 of 528,000,000 acres. Now add 172,000,000 acres already 

 enumerated as granted to railroads, and we find 700,000,000 

 acres out of the whole amount have been disposed of, and 

 but 200,000,000 remain. Then the private and State 

 claims that have not been considered in these figures 

 amount to 85,000,000 acres. Now what have we left 7 



